Recueil de desseins gravés d'après les fameux maitres tirés de la collection de l'Academie Electorale Palatine des Beaux Arts a Düsseldorff.

151 etchings, 40,2 x 32,7 cm (sheets), laid paper (mostly marg. spots, few edges creased or soiled).

Good impressions with wide margins. 19th-c. three-quarter calf folder with gilt-orn. spine (rubbed).

Nice collection of etchings after old master drawings in the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Artists incl. Annibale Carracci, Pietro da Cortona, Albrecht Dürer, François Duquesnoy, Guercino, Michelangelo, Parmigianino, Nicolas Poussin, Raphael, Guido Reni, Titian, Diego Velázquez, etc. The complete 1st and 2nd suite (title plate and 50 etchings), supplemented by 49 etchings from a 3rd suite.
Joined: La Grande Passion par Albert Dürer en douze gravures sur bois. Nuremberg anno 1511 [...]. Utrecht, P. W. Van de Weijer, (1875) Large folio, title (foxed), 13 pl., 42,5 x 30,8 cm to 54,0 x 37,1 cm (sheets), wove paper (sl. browned, few spots). Hinged at edges. Publ. wr. and portfolio (used, joint split). Complete series with 12 pl. reproduced in P. W. van de Weijer's technique after the proofs before the letter belonging to Dr. Straeter in Aachen and with an introduction by George Duplessis. Incl. Christ crowned with thorns, the Last Supper, Christ in the garden of olive trees, the betrayal of Judas, the flagellation, Christ shown to the people, Christ carrying the Cross, Christ on the Cross, the Descent from the Cross, Christ carried in the tomb, the descent to limbo and the Resurrection. Enriched with a plate "Jesus mocked by a soldier". (2 pcs)